Loom-temple.



No. $02,818. PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905. W. LUP'I'ON.

LOOM TEMPLE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. so. 190s.

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LOOlVl-TEWIPLE.

Specification o f Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24:, 1905.

Application filed November O, 1903. Serial No. 183,153.

To all whom, it may concern:

vring is mounted between or upon antifriction balls or runners, and thesaid balls or runners are so applied that they are practically integralwith the ring or its holders, and such parts may be handled without fearof the balls or runners falling out. Each temple-ring is bored at rightangles to its two side faces, which are parallel, and the stud or axis,by which it is supported, is carried by the twisted part of a bracket,which holds the stud at an angle instead of horizontal, and thereforecauses the ring to rotate at the required angle for stretching thecloth.

Figure l illustrates a plan of a complete single-ring temple and itsfittings constructed according to these improvements. Fig. 2 illustratesan end or front view (in part) looking' from the back of the loom. Fig.3 illustrates an enlarged longitudinal section ofthe temple-ring and itsholders and supporting-stud with the several parts separated from eachother in order to show them more clearly. Fig'. L illustrates an endView of one of the holders. Fig. 5 illustrates a modieation in section.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, a designatesthe temple-ring, the studor axis on which it rotates, and c' c2 the two holders by and betweenwhich the ring is held in position.

CZ is the nut by which the stud L is secured to the temple-bracket e.This latter, as shown, is twisted to produce a beveled face at the partwhere the stud is attached, and thus holds the stud i'n adownwardly-inclined position instead of horizontally, as heretofore. Inso doing it will be seen that it permits of the ring a being bored atright angles to its sides, the angular position of the stud serving tohold the ring at the required angle for stretching the fabric.

In each of the holders c' c2 is a recess or cavity, and in such cavityare antifrietionballs f, the depth of the cavity being such as to causethe balls to project slightly beyond the face of the holder. as shown,so that on the parts being assembled as shown in Fig. 1 and the tensionof the cloth to be stretched exercising its force on the ring a theupper half of the ring presses against the balls in the holder c and itslower part presses against the balls in the holder c2 and, due to theballs running freely, the ring rotates freely.

The shape of each cavity or ball-race is such that its entrance isslightly less than the full diameter of the balls, and thus whileallowing the balls perfect freedom prevents them leaving the cavity.This narrowing of the entrance is effected by burnishing over the twoedges of the entrance of the cavity after the balls have been inserted.

As shown in Fig. 3, an iron bush /L and a plate fai are provided for theballs to run on, the temple-ring, which is of brass, being recessed toallow room for them, or, as shown in Fig. 5, the inner periphery of therace may be made parallel to the stud and after the balls have beeninserted be fitted with a tightlyfitting beveled ring, which, inconjunction with the undercut outer periphery of the race, serves toretain the balls.

That I claim isu In a loom-tem ple, a bracket, a stud secured to suchbracket, and said bracket where the stud is secured lying at an angle ofabout thirty degrees to the other parts of the bracket and holding thestud in a downwardly-inclined direction, two temple-ring holders on thesaid stud, each with an annular cavity, steel balls in said cavity,andthe said cavity at its entrance and in depth slightly less in sizethan the diameter of the balls, a temple-ring between said holders andballs, wearing-plates between the balls and temple-rings, and means forsecuring the several parts in close contact with each other and the saidstud to the said bracket, substantial ly as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

VTLLIAM LUPTON.

